THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

no farther for an answer. But this article is long enough without going into more detail. I
leave that to the many others who are documenting the academic failures of "Goals 2000".]
1. Education as "Rainbow Building"
Alice Bailey saw global education as a "bridging work", referring to the Rainbow concept
on a horizontal level, to prepare mankind for the vertical bridging with the Hierarchy. The
goal is reduced to "the smooth functioning of the One Humanity". [A rather beaurocratic aim,
but one worthy of a directorship that calls itself the "Hierarchy" - and a goal that closely
echoes Aldous Huxley's _Brave New World_ in title, timing and content.] This functioning,
she writes, necessitates removing any obstacles that cause "separation": racial, national,
religious and economic class consciousness. (_Education_ III, p.90) [Sounds great, until we
encounter one notable multi-exception to all of these: Jewish identity, a blend of unique
ethnicity, nationhood and religion producing the worst kind of "separation" there is. At least
Jews are not guilty of "economic class" obstacles. But then again, economic separativeness
clearly does not strike the same chord in NA hearts as other wars against "separation" -
witness the financial elite attending the pivotal "State of the World Forum".]
Bailey indicated four foundational concepts that must be absorbed by schoolchildren:
simplicity (guaranteed to "kill" materialistic thinking), cooperative goodwill, loving
understanding and world citizenship. The child is to be taught to harness his/her "energies"
of life and knowledge in the service of "love". Love is defined here as "group relationship, in
order that knowledge should be subordinated to the group need and interests." This is
achieved by reorienting the educational goals themselves, in three specific ways: (1) The child
is to be taught "from infancy that all that he... is being taught is with the view to the good of
others more than of himself." History is no longer studied from the standpoint of "facts" or
"achievement" but of "racial growth in consciousness". This leads to a consciousness of one's
"responsibility". (2) All of life is qualitatively the same - not only all human life, animate life,
or even all metabolic life, but "the total life pulsing throughout all forms, all kingdoms in
nature, all planets, and the solar system". This leads to a consciousness of "relationship" and
"blood Brotherhood". (3) Everyone is born to "service", a lesson to be reinforced continually
from earliest years through vocational decisions. The end result will be to "link head, heart
and throat into one unified and functioning agency," in individual and group imitation of the
Planetary Logos. (_Education_ III, p.92-94)
But all of this is only the "primary step" to "the building of the antahkarana" on the horizontal
level, also known as the "Science of Right Relations". ["Right human relations" for the Jews
must take on a unique character; this now refers to the rest of Humanity] This is followed by
the "Science of the Antahkarana", or the vertical rainbow-bridge building. The latter,
recognized as a "new and true science of the mind", is a purely spiritual, that is religious,
discipline. Its goals are to "end the fear of death", "negate all separateness", and open
children up to "impressions from the higher spiritual realms. Thus he will more easily be
initiated into the purposes and plans of the Creator." (p.95-96) Clearly "education in the New
Age" is nothing more or less than preparation for the Planetary Initiation.
Building this "second half of the antahkarana" will destroy old "misconceptions" which we
now accept as reality: "the illusion of appearance, the illusion of evolutionary unfoldment
[note that this is first taught as a basic principle; it will later be discarded], the illusion of
separateness, and the illusion of distinctive identity - that illusion which makes us say 'I am.'"
(_Education I, p.24-25) Other "illusions" to be destroyed through education: that war is an
agony to be avoided (it is actually a "surgical operation"), that destruction and world suffering
are evil (the "Custodians of the Plan" see it otherwise) (_Education_ IV, p.111-112)